Literary Criticism
Explore a diverse collection of literary criticism books, including essential theories and analyses.
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Race and Affect in Early Modern English LiteratureThis collection brings together critical race studies and affect theory to examine the emotional dimensions of race in early modern literature. Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature puts the fields of critical race studies and affect theory into dialogue. Doing so opens...
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What Rosalind Likes: Pastoral, Gender, and the Founding of English VerseWhat Rosalind Likes begins with the strange ferocity of Elizabethan responses to poetry: a woman named Rosalind expresses scorn for a shepherd's poems, and a character in a play loses his temper and storms off stage at the sound of a blank verse line....
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Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic NarrativesWhile most US-based comics studies anthologies tend to neglect race, Beyond the Icon brings it to the foreground through an analysis of the vibrant and growing body of graphic narratives by Asian North American creators in the twenty-first century. By demonstrating how the forms...
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Rebel Men: Masculinity and Attitude in Postsocialist Chinese LiteratureA discussion of masculinity in post-1989 Chinese literature. Masculinity, fast-changing and regularly declared to be in the throes of crisis, is attracting more popular and scholarly debate in China than ever before. This book probes the link between literary rebellion and manhood in China,...
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Tales from Du Bois: The Queer Intimacy of Cross-Caste RomanceTales from Du Bois brings together critical race theory, queer studies, philosophy, and genre theory to offer an illuminating new comprehensive study of W. E. B. Du Bois's fiction from 1903-1928. Erika Renée Williams begins by revisiting Du Bois's tale of being rebuffed by...
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Fluide MedialeFlie ende Übergänge, verschwimmende Körper, sich auflösende Substanzen, verflüssigte Sprache - Fluide Mediale rücken eine bisher wenig akzentuierte Genealogie in den Fokus. Inwieweit Fragestellungen nach dem ökologischen Verbundensein von Mensch/Tier/Pflanze/Stein und Umwelt fruchtbar sind, zeigt sich daran, dass anhand des Fluiden nicht nur Begriffsgrenzen...
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Teaching Literature in the Online ClassroomKeep students engaged in online literature classes.This volume considers the challenges and opportunities of online literature classes and suggests instructional strategies that ensure students are engaged in the virtual classroom. The ideas shared here are grounded in research, practice, critical self-reflection, and collaboration. Reflecting...
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Nabokov Noir: Cinematic Culture and the Art of ExileNabokov Noir places Vladimir Nabokov's early literary career--from the 1920s to the 1940s--in the context of his fascination with silent and early sound cinema and the chiaroscuro darkness and artificial brightness of the Weimar era, with its movie palaces, cultural Americanism, and surface culture....
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Greek Epitaphic Poetry: A SelectionAuthor: Richard HunterPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 01/13/2022Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.48h x 5.50w x 0.60dISBN: 9781108926041About the AuthorHunter, Richard: - RICHARD HUNTER is Regius Professor of Greek Emeritus in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. He has published extensively...
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A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare's LondonWilliam Muggins, an impoverished but highly literate weaver-poet, lived and wrote in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, when few of his contemporaries could even read. A Weaver-Poet and the Plague's microhistorical approach uses Muggins's life and writing, in which he articulates...
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The Raven and Other Poems: Fully Annotated Edition with Over 400 Notes. It Contains Poe's Complete Poems and Three Essays on PoetryThe undisputed pioneer of the horror, detective and science-fiction genres, Edgar Allan Poe was just as influential as a poet as he is now a celebrated writer of short stories. The present edition contains a large selection of his works in verse, from those...
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Reading Homer's IliadWe still read Homer's epic the Iliad two-and-one-half millennia since its emergence for the questions it poses and the answers it provides for our age, as viable today as they were in Homer's own times. What is worth dying for? What is the meaning...
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Outback and Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental ImaginaryOutback and Out West examines the ecological consequences of a settler-colonial imaginary by comparing expressions of settler colonialism in the literature of the American West and Australian Outback. Tom Lynch traces exogenous domination in both regions, which resulted in many similar means of settlement,...
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Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman Self: Subject and Nation in Literary DiscourseNow in Paper!As the most widely read Roman poem in antiquity, the Aeneid was indelibly burned into the memories of generations of Roman school children. In this book, author Yasmin Syed analyzes the formative influence the poem exerted on its broad audience of educated...
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Incarnation & Metamorphosis: Can Literature Change Us?"Witty and heartfelt essays, shaken and stirred."--Kirkus Reviews "David Mason believes in literature as a weather event--even an extreme one. He reads to be changed--drenched, burned, blown away. He has no wish to have his standing position confirmed, and is alert to the ways...
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Careful CartographyCareful Cartography, the striking debut collection from Devon Bohm, doubles as life writing and poetry. With her detailed geographic narrative, Bohm plots out her autobiography through both external and internal landscapes. Strong in style and voice, these impactful free verse poems create a map...
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Tomatoes + Why Doesn't the Far Left Read Literature?Translated by Marty Hiatt. Lauded French poet Nathalie Quintane's TOMATOES, written at the height of the infamous Tarnac affair, is a book of integrated critique, a form a literary non-fiction that prefers anecdote to theory. In TOMATOES, it turns out that the banalities of...
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Bestsellers and Masterpieces: The Changing Medieval CanonBestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon addresses the strange fact that, in both European and Middle Eastern medieval studies, those texts that we now study and teach as the most canonical representations of their era were in fact not popular or even widely...
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Storm Birds"This gripping novel is as good at describing the magnificent seascapes and the unforgiving elements as it is at examining the inner lives of the besieged crew, toiling ceaselessly against implacable nature" -Financial Times BOOKS OF THE YEAR "Gripping and Exciting" The Sunday Times...
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The Semiotics of Architecture in Video GamesVideo games are among the most popular media on the planet, and billions of people inhabit these virtual worlds on a daily basis. This book investigates the architecture of video games, the buildings, roads and cities in which gamers play out their roles. Examining...
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